Yamaha SY35

FM Vector Synthesizer

SY35 is a 16-voice polyphonic, 8-part multitimbral 61-key synthesizer based on two FM operators and two digital acoustic sample playback oscillators. The structure comprises 4 LFOs, no filters, 4 volume-only envelopes. The sequencer is not installed. The effects section offers 16 digital effects.

Memory delivers 64 presets and 68 user patches as well as 16 performances.

The synthesizer provides with a unique combination of FM and AWM sample playback creating a Vector Synthesis systems together. 128 AWM sampled sounds can’t be expanded, there are also 256 FM waveforms. The vector wheel mix and adjust the waves and samples. That’s how Yamaha could make it through both popular concepts back then – FM of the 80s and AWM which was the tendency of the 90s.

Though the programmability was tough, the selection of sounds offered ready-made quality voices including Alpha Juno 2 and DX7 sounds.

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